2006-11-02 02:44:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Because wash-up and wash down mean two different things.
You can't take everything too literally, language has moved beyond that. The two words used together don't only have different meanings, but different contexts.
wash down
1. To clean by washing with water from top to bottom: wash down the walls.
2. To follow the ingestion of (food, for example) with the ingestion of a liquid:
wash up
1. To wash one's hands.
2. Chiefly British To wash dishes after a meal.
3. To burn out; exhaust:
2006-11-02 02:52:34 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because nine times out of ten when crockery is washed and dried it is put up into a cupboard. Or if left to drain on the sink the draining board is higher than the sink.
2006-11-05 05:42:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same as cleaning up or tidying up!! You're picking things up is all I can think of.
2006-11-02 02:51:08 · answer #3 · answered by Dragon Empress 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's niether ! It's washing round and round !
2006-11-02 02:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its the same as cleaning up,
its one of those wonders of the english language that means exactly (not) what it means.
2006-11-02 02:50:07 · answer #5 · answered by Helen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I said so.
2006-11-06 02:05:50 · answer #6 · answered by MI5 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you mean # washing # such as dishers ?
it is simply "washing "
all depends where you are from ?
there is no up or down .............
2006-11-05 11:38:37 · answer #7 · answered by HJW 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋